Dyck algebras, interval temporal logic and posets of intervals
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Publication:6260033
DOI10.1137/15M1016904arXiv1503.04991MaRDI QIDQ6260033
Publication date: 17 March 2015
Abstract: We investigate a natural Heyting algebra structure on the set of Dyck paths of the same length. We provide a geometrical description of the operations of pseudocomplement and relative pseudocomplement, as well as of regular elements. We also find a logic-theoretic interpretation of such Heyting algebras, which we call Dyck algebras, by showing that they are the algebraic counterpart of a certain fragment of a classical interval temporal logic (also known as Halpern-Shoham logic). Finally, we propose a generalization of our approach, suggesting a similar study of the Heyting algebra arising from the poset of intervals of a finite poset using Birkh"off duality. In order to illustrate this, we show how several combinatorial parameters of Dyck paths can be expressed in terms of the Heyting algebra structure of Dyck algebras together with a certain total order on the set of atoms of each Dyck algebra.
Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Combinatorics of partially ordered sets (06A07) Heyting algebras (lattice-theoretic aspects) (06D20) Temporal logic (03B44)
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